#trumps grades

[moonbean117]

[kafiguas]

we had ONE JOB

[enyasaints]

Hi I’m a Failure and I’m in overdraft.

Hey so I haven’t asked for help in months because I felt bad for asking. I am so behind financially. Currently I am in overdraft and seeking $200 for to get me to equilibrium. I have a cost breakdown for transparency.

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$200 Breakdown

• $30 Gas

• $80 Health Necessities (metabolic supplements + vitamins + protein)

• $60 Beeswax & Propolis Magic Salve Boils Treatment Hidradenitis Suppurativa

• $26 Overdraft

🔅 $200 Goal 🔅

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I have nothing - Whitney Houston

Please help 💕

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Math, grade 7, Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.RP.A.3: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

Essential Question: How can basic calculations of percent change influence major world events?

Do Now: Calculate the percent increase or decrease in each of the following equations. x = (28 - 17.9)/28 x = (41.5 - 57.7)/57.7

Class Discussion: Remind students about how to perform basic calculations of increase/decrease factors. Ask them whether this calculation would be more complicated if the quantities were dollars instead of just numbers (answer: no). Ask them whether this calculation would be more complicated if the quantities were billions of dollars instead of just dollars (answer: no). Show students that they just performed the exact same calculations that Donald Trump did in order to decide what tariffs should be put upon Indonesia and Thailand, respectively.

Finally, ask students whether important global trade decisions should be calculated with 7th grade math skills, or if perhaps this is insufficient given the severe consequences that could arise from such a dunning-kruger error.

Direct Instruction: Explain what a Dunning-Kruger error is, if for no other reason than to communicate how absolutely maddening has it is for legitimate experts who have dedicated their lives to nudging fiscal policy in the right direction and then watch as their president makes the worst decision possible on purpose.

Take a moment to explain the difference between an import and an export, so that students understand what these billions of dollars actually mean in the real world. Feel free to call out anyone who has ever questioned whether or not they would ever use this kind of math in the real world. Show them that it's happening right now, and make sure they understand how terrifying that is.

Acknowledge the variables: x: total exports from US to country i m: total imports to US from country i tau (τ): calculated % tariff on all imports to US from country i epsilon (ε): elasticity phi (φ): passthrough

Ask students what they think elasticity and passthrough mean, then show students this passage from ustr.gov:

Parameter Selection To calculate reciprocal tariffs, import and export data from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2024. Parameter values for ε and φ were selected. The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4. Recent evidence suggests the elasticity is near 2 in the long run (Boehm et al., 2023), but estimates of the elasticity vary. To be conservative, studies that find higher elasticities near 3-4 (e.g., Broda and Weinstein 2006; Simonovska and Waugh 2014; Soderbery 2018) were drawn on. The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021).

Ask students if this clarified anything about what elasticity and passthrough mean. Most will say "no", but if anyone points out that multiplying 4 by 0.25 cancels them both out, reward them. That student is correct, because elasticity and passthrough have been arbitrarily assigned so as to make this calculation so simple that even Donald Trump can understand it.

Modeled Learning: Show how to apply these tariffs to popular imports such as raw coffee beans. For example, the USDA report of coffee imports from 2024 (page 6) shows that the vast majority of raw coffee is imported from Brazil.

A simple search with Perplexity.ai tells us that in 2024, imports (m) = $42.3 billion and exports (x) = $49.7 billion, so the reciprocal tariff would be (x-m)/m = (49.7-42.3)/42.3 = 17.5%.

Thus, all coffee imports from Brazil will automatically be 17.5% more expensive.

Be sure to highlight that this is happening to every country in the world, even those with total populations less than 1000.

Higher Order Learning:

Students should consider the following facts:

There is very little territory within the United States that can grow coffee.

Almost all coffee in the world is grown within what is called "The Global South", where the climate is warm and the labor is cheap.

The US exports significantly more (sometimes vastly more) to countries in the Global South than we import from them.

Students should then answer the following questions:

What will this universal tariff calculation do to the price of coffee?

Is there any way that US coffee companies can import the same amount of coffee as before without passing on the cost to consumers? Why or why not?

Do you think this tariff program will equalize imports and exports between the US and other countries? What other impacts could it have, good or bad, across the world?

[tmninjagirl]

yeah basically

[crickit-song]

Trump making all people legally women was not on my 2025 bingo card, but with how much of an idiot republican politicians seem to be, maybe it should've been.

[politics-pandemonium]

Somebody Just Fucking Shoot Him Already

I really can't with this circus anymore. The fact that things have even gotten this far is just beyond absurd. Republicans shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore. Frankly anyone that voted for Trump should be tried for treason for aiding and enabling a dictator to get into the white house. I get that denying people the right to vote is pretty much in the same vein as what Trump is trying to do, but I can justify it by saying that Republicans are no longer voting in good faith.

Republicans are just traitors to the US entirely at this point, therefore their votes should no longer matter if they're voting to hurt others. The "I didn't know this would happen" excuse is just that. A fucking excuse. They knew it was gonna happen, just not to them, so when it came back and bit them in the ass, they had the audacity to actually cry about it, further proving that they voted in bad faith. Purely to cause harm to others. They WEAPONIZED their vote. You absolutely should not have the right to vote if your vote is cast with the express purpose of harming/suppressing others. Frankly, options with the potential to harm others shouldn't even be allowed to be voted on period.

This also isn't just an issue with the people. It's also an issue with our fucked up politicians putting measures into our ballots that grant the shittiest people the option to weaponize their votes. Politicians should not be allowed to be putting shit that can have the potential to harm anyone into law or on a ballot and should be relieved of their position immediately. No questions asked. You propose a bill that threatens to cause harm to communities, minorities, etc, bolster the power of a company or CEO at a political level, then your career in politics should absolutely come to an end right then and there regardless of what party you're involved with.

Voting on LGBTQ+/POC rights and equality? No. That's not something that should be put to a vote. Someone will always be an absolute piece of shit and have a problem with someone else for whatever personal bullshit because of their lifestyle, the color of their skin, etc. People are people regardless of color, orientation, creed, religion, etc. You treat everyone with fairness and equality. You don't put an option on people's ballots that allow them to vote for anything that harms anyone like removing LGBTQ+ individuals' rights to marry the person they love. They get everything that every "normal" white fucking citizen gets and then you leave them the fuck alone. When was the last time we had to vote whether white people should be out in the cotton fields? What about when heterosexuals should be allowed marry?

Education? Another something that shouldn't be voted on unless it's how to move forward with improving the educational system. Not whether or not to move forward or backward. That should only be improving and getting better in one of X ways presented with no harm to the system or the people involved in the system itself.

Government assistance? This country, any country, ceases to exist without its people. The government's job by default is to take care of and watch over its people whether that's protecting them and their rights or providing assistance to those in need. Not letting people slip through the cracks and acting like it didn't happen, blatantly ignoring entire fucking groups being targeted by racist sacks of shit that should be in cells and not out in society causing harm to it, or protecting companies and CEOs whom have made it their fucking life mission to cause harm to the people that work at their companies.

Health care? The absolute fuck? You want your employees to be healthy so the government or your business can run, right? Cause you don't know how to do one of your low-level employees' jobs. You want another lockdown because people were being stupid and didn't want to wear a mask of all the fucking things? Then you vote for universal healthcare and only improvements upon it.

Wages? Are you fucking kidding me? Why is that even subject to a vote? People need to live. Wages absolutely need to fluctuate with inflation and allow everyone to be able to live at the bare minimum. You want the economy to die? Not allowing people to have money to spend to fucking feed the goddamn economy that's about to slam face-first into the motherfucking ground because of that orange piece of shit and his cabinet of cocksuckers along with that fucking nazi is a great way to tank it. As well as just letting a complete and absolute sociopathic fucking dictator run the country.

No one should present or be given the opportunity to vote in bad faith or to harm someone.

There is always going to be some piece of shit out there who's going to want their black neighbor across the street hanging from their tree on their front lawn.

There is always going to be some piece of shit out there that's going to want to tie a gay kid to the back of their bumper and drive down the road, dragging them along the ground on the way.

There is always going to be some piece of shit out there that thinks that their god is the only one that matters and everyone else should follow their belief system.

There is always going to be some piece of shit out there that wants to make money but doesn't want to work as hard for it, and also doesn't want to pay the people that enable that lifestyle a fair wage.

There is always going to be some piece of shit out there that wants to come into power and fuck the country up from the inside out, and allow people to help him by inviting them into the system to assist in destroying it.

It's fucked that people like this exist and that that'll never change, even if they are given all the means to live a wonderful and healthy life, all the while screaming that it's someone's fault that something isn't happening for them because they're not being allowed to hurt other people.

They shouldn't be given the chance to vote to get their wish, nor should they be given the chance to allow someone like that to get it.

So I say this with my full chest:

If you're a Republican, you're a piece of shit. You have no place in this country, you have no business running it, you are despicable and disgusting voting in favor of the downfall of others because of the color of their skin, race, religion, orientation, etc, especially when you're so short-sighted that you can't see how that'll come back to bite you in your stupid ass until it actually does, like it is right now.

And if you're thinking something along the lines of "who the fuck are you to make that sort of claim?" or "What makes you qualified to make such claims?" guess what?

I'm the guy that wants to fix this miserable country and keep it fixed so that the bullshit that's happening right now, in realtime, causing me to make these claims in the first place, doesn't keep happening or happen again. So shut the fuck up and help me fix this shit or get the fuck out of my way and out of this country, because you don't belong here if your goal is to seek to destroy it and the best way to go about fixing it is to start cutting out the rot and filth that made its way into our government.

[hale-my-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Graded F

[ashleyfableblack]

Congratulations, trump! You just made all of america women! 😂😁😂😁😂

Granted, it doesn't matter if the grand orange nitwit writes an executive order claiming the sun is now made of lime sherbert. He can't change reality. 😂

The American Pediatric Association, The American Psychiatric Association, The World Health Organization, Hell, dozens of medical groups represented by thousands of doctors with decades of peer-reviewed research already know- Transgenderism is a real thing. Gender is a spectrum. And no amount of bellyaching by conservative jackwagons can change that.

Y'all are still The Same as you were before mango mussolini put pen to paper and nothing he or his cadre of holy-rollers and old money can do will change that fact. 💜💙💚💛💗

[ibetittering]

Fuck all of y'all in Florida how dare you misrepresent my liberal king that man loves women (not in that way) and he would not STAND for this smh

[mugiwara-lucy]

Guys when we say don't pay attention to Trump's EOs because they will be tried and defeated in court; THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN! They're a distraction from the odious stuff happening behind the scenes. And THIS is one of them!

If you all remember the SAVE Act from last summer, in a nutshell if passed; the ONLY way women could be able to vote is if their name matched their birth certificate so basically if you're married and took your husband's name...you're FUCKED.

"Make America Great Again" means Make America Great Again for White MEN. And yes I'm saying Men so to all you Karnes, just know your "conservative Christian" husbands want you in the kitchen pushing out babies.

[eye-prophet]

The urge to go back to writting and posting fanfiction but remembering the last times you did that you nearly ended up in a phyc ward, almost dead and this close to having to move to russia among other things

[rollinrockabilly]

💙💙💁🏻‍♀️

[uboat53]

Well, Kamal Harris just released the results of her latest medical check-up and she's got 20 years of tax returns online if you want to check them out, so now seems a good time to remind you that Donald Trump still has not released a single tax return after promising to do so 9 years ago and hasn't released anything more detailed about his health than vague "he's fine" letters supposedly from his doctor.

It's not just that either, Trump goes to extreme lengths to hide just about anything that would give a person insight about him. We still don't know what his high school or college grades were because, and this is true, he threatened to sue his schools if they were ever released.

Think about what you know about the man, do you really think Trump would fight tooth and nail to keep his finances, his health, and his academic records hidden if they were good?

You don't need to check your brain at the door when you think about politics, you're free to make the obvious inference and vote accordingly.

[tmninjagirl]

👊🔥🇺🇸

[alyfoxxxen]

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